The Invisible Rich Man's
Chapter 348
At that time, his father was living in poverty and he failed to pass the entrance exam to enter university. Therefore, Gerald's grandfather had forced him to serve as a soldier in the army. There, he met his comrades in arms.
After being a soldier for two years, he returned to his hometown and farmed.
He's needed money since he went bankrupt.
Somehow, he managed to gather enough to open a steamed bakery and he stopped farming back then. However, since his father was not the one to let the thief run away just like that when he saw him, he ended up injuring the thief. As a result, he had to hand over his steamed bakery to the other party as compensation.
At that time, he had also borrowed a lot of money and had a lot of foreign debt.
It was a point in his life where he was so poor, that he did not even have the money to celebrate the New Year. Seeing no other hope, he decided to look for his comrades-in-arms.
His comrades-in-arms live in the countryside and come from quite wealthy families. Both of his parents were civil servants so they naturally had quite good lives.
However, whenever his father arrived at his house according to the address given, his partner would never exist.
It was nothing short of cold and disappointing back then.
Even though they were brothers, they were very close to each other. They had even made a pact that their future son would become a brother as well. If one of them gave birth to a girl, then they would become a couple.
Well, it turns out that the pact was just a joke to his partner.
From then on, he did not try to contact her again.
Finally, when his father was twenty-two years old, Gerald's grandfather finally told his father that he was in fact a wealthy heir.
His father is then led to start a business before he can finally inherit the Crawford family fortune.
It was only after Gerald and his sister were born that his father and mother finally returned to their hometown. They both control their businesses remotely while also planning the right poverty system to educate their children.
Gerald can vividly remember that his neighbors, Mr. Winters and Mrs Winters, had cared for Gerald and his sister for most of their childhood. Their parents are always busy looking for money abroad to pay off their family debts.
His parents would only return to visit them two or three times a year at most to check on their progress.
It was a basic summary of everything that had happened.
As for when his father would finally meet his fellow comrades-in-arms again, it happened when Gerald was ready to start his high school life. His father had brought him to meet his comrades in arms. Gerald's father recalled that his colleague said that he was successful in his studies. She now wants him to help Gerald find a good school.
When they finally looked at the parking lot of his colleague's house, his comrade-in-arms simply said that he was busy with the meeting when his father asked for his help. He then immediately changed the subject and told his father to meet him again in the future to reminisce about the past.
In the end, Gerald managed to get into a prestigious high school through his own good grades.
That was the only impression Gerald had personally when he met his father's comrade-in-arms.
“How about it, brother?” gerald asked while putting his own thoughts aside for now.
“Well, there you have it, dad constantly says that he misses his old friends. However, you know that he has always been indifferent to fame and fortune. Now that our poverty education system is over, it will not be convenient for fathers to return to Mayberry City to visit their old friends directly, with a very high father status and so on. Yes, I know his so-called 'friend' always looked down on us and our father, but our father loved to see people's kindness. Since I can't go back to doing anything personally now, I must leave this matter to you now!
“Since you will be staying in Mayberry City to clear up some of your business affairs during the summer holidays, try taking a few days off to go home and stay there for a while. While there, you can visit your father's old friend as well as his special friend. I'll send something to you soon. It will contain contact information and a special friend's address in it as well. You've never met a special friend before I thought. If there is anything you can do to help this situation, please do.”
“Also because Mr. Winters and Mrs Winters have been taking care of us for so long, maybe waking them up a villa on the mountain. Make sure you give their kids money to help them too! Well, I have to go now, see you!”
After giving him so many instructions, he immediately hung up the phone.
Gerald could only feel confused at this moment.
Who was his father's special friend?
Realizing that thinking about it would not help, he simply shook his head before returning to the dormitory.
Everything that happens after that is played out as shown before
Back in the present, the night was silent as the boys slept soundly.
Early the next morning, Gerald went to the library with a few textbooks on hand to study.
There were already a few people there even though it was this early.
Gerald just walked to his usual study by the window.
As soon as he saw the familiar table, he remembered Giya. After all, this was where they first met.
He wanted to give her the jade bracelet he bought for her. However, he did not see it on his usual route and he also did not have his contact information.
Her secondary mission in the library was to see if she could finally meet him again.
After sitting down, Gerald found himself looking up from time to time.
While she did, some polite-looking girls who had been sitting in another corner of the library continued to observe Gerald's actions.
“Hey, hey! Who do you think that pathetic jerk is looking for?” ask one of the girls while smiling.